Me Before You delivers exactly what the trailer offered: an unthreatening, mechanically-delivered generic grind that is very long and - flat pacing aside and some misplaced melodramatic moments - does nothing especially badly but fails to catch fire. Get past the usual upper-class romantic fantasy twaddle and there are some positives: Sam Claflin does some very good work in the quadriplegic role, Emilia Clarke does some effective character building in a deliberately (and very successfully) irritating part, Craig Armstrong's score is pleasing and occasionally a little bite sneaks in, such as the family birthday party. Otherwise, the film is a fairly relentless plod and the central relationship does not ring true, and as for female empowerment in a largely female-driven production, it is the male protagonist who is in control to the very end.
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